Hello, campers!

I wanted to reach out to you on behalf of the Humanities Commons team because, as you may already know, we are organizing a Twitter conference this summer on July 18th. Based on the work you’ve all created and the discussions you’ve engaged in through the summer camp, I wanted to personally extend an invitation to you to submit a…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Stony Brook University
31st Annual English Graduate Conference
March 1st, 2019</p>
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Disrupting the Canon: High Culture, Low Brow, and the Space In Between</p>
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jonathan W. Gray
John Jay College of Criminal Justice</p>

What is the difference…[Read more]

Hello all,

For those of you experiencing the start of the fall semester, I hope it’s going well!

I wanted to reach out to see if anyone would be interested in being the focus of an upcoming HC Team blog post. I would love to interview someone who participated in the HC Summer Camp about the site they created as part of the camp’s challenges. Is…[Read more]

Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel, 29). However, for settlers within the early colonies and citizens of the young republic, the wilderness of the supposed New World…[Read more]

Hello, everyone!

The HC team and I would love some feedback from you regarding the HC Summer Camp. In fact, we’re raffling off two HC platypuses. To enter to win this coveted prize, you simply need to respond to the “Reflect and Plan” questions in our previous discussion thread and/or complete the (5-10 min) survey. Participating in both will…[Read more]